How to manage your LinkedIn and multichannel outreach from Claude or ChatGPT

You already keep Claude or ChatGPT open all day. Then a campaign slows down, and finding out why means another tab, the right workspace, the right campaign and three screens of counters.

Short answer: Kerux works with Claude and ChatGPT through its connector (an MCP server). Add it as a custom connector with the address https://www.usekerux.com/api/mcp, sign in to Kerux, pick a workspace and what the assistant may do. Then ask in plain words: "What needs my attention today?", "Why is Ana stuck?", "Build a 3-step campaign for agency owners". The assistant reads your real campaigns, contacts and inbox, builds campaigns as drafts, and asks you before it launches a campaign or sends a message. The connector is part of the Pro and Agency plans and of the 10-day free trial.

What you need

• A Kerux workspace on Pro or Agency, or the free trial. You need to be an owner, admin or member: Viewers can't connect apps.
• Claude (claude.ai or Claude Desktop) or ChatGPT, on a plan that lets you add custom connectors.
• Five minutes. There is no API key to copy for claude.ai or ChatGPT: you sign in to Kerux instead.

The server address, for both:

https://www.usekerux.com/api/mcp

Set it up in Claude

1. In claude.ai, open Settings > Connectors and click Add custom connector. Name it Kerux, paste the address above and leave the advanced settings empty.
2. Click Connect. A Kerux page opens: sign in if you're asked to.
3. Pick the workspace and tick the permissions. Seeing your data is ticked for you; changing things (adding contacts, editing campaigns, sending replies) stays off until you tick it. Click Allow.

Claude Desktop uses the same Settings > Connectors screen.

Set it up in ChatGPT

1. In ChatGPT, open Settings > Apps & Connectors, turn on developer mode if your plan asks for it, then Create a connector. Name it Kerux, paste the address and choose OAuth as the authentication.
2. Click Create, then Connect. A Kerux page opens: sign in if you're asked to.
3. Pick the workspace and the permissions, then click Allow.

On that Kerux page, claude.ai and ChatGPT show as Verified app: Kerux recognizes them by the site they send you back to. Any other app shows a red warning with its return site. Anyone can name an app "Claude", so allow it only if you know that site and just asked to connect it.

Step by step for both assistants: Use Kerux from Claude or ChatGPT. Using Claude Code or Cursor? They connect with a Kerux API key instead of the sign-in; the developer guide has the exact command and config.

Ready-made prompts

Kerux also adds up to 8 ready-made prompts, such as Why is a contact stuck?, Build a campaign and What needs my attention today?. In Claude, click + in the message box and open Kerux; other assistants show them where they support prompts. Which ones you see depends on the permissions you gave: Prepare a campaign for launch shows up only when the connection may start campaigns.

15 things to ask it

These are the questions the connector is built for. Each one maps to a Kerux tool the assistant calls for you, so the answers come from your workspace, not from the model's guesses.

Your daily check

• "What needs my attention today?" Everything that needs a person, grouped by campaign and reason.
• "How many invitations did each campaign send this week, and how many were accepted?" Invitations, acceptance rate, replies, reply rate and meetings, for the last 7 days or any period you name.
• "Are any of my LinkedIn accounts close to today's limits?" Each account's health and today's usage against its limits.

Fixing stuck leads

• "Why is Ana stuck?" The reason, since when, the step she waits on and the fix.
• "Why is the Webinar campaign so slow this week?" Where contacts wait, which account limits hold them back and any problem on a step.
• "Ana's message is waiting for an empty company name. Use 'your team' when it's empty and let her continue." The fallback applies to every contact stopped on that step.
• "Retry the contacts that stopped because the CRM call failed." The assistant finds them in Need attention and retries each one. It asks before it acts.

Building campaigns

• "Build a 3-step campaign for agency owners: an invitation, then two short follow-ups." Kerux builds a draft from your sentence and your business profile, like Create with AI in the app. Nothing runs yet.
• "In my Q4 campaign, add a 3-day wait and a short follow-up after the second message." The assistant shows you the change first, then applies it to the draft.
• "Is my Q4 campaign ready to launch? What would block it?" The launch checklist and forecast. It changes nothing.
• "Launch it." Only after the checklist passes and you say yes.

Contacts

• "Add these 10 LinkedIn profiles to my Webinar list." Created or updated by LinkedIn URL, so nobody is duplicated.
• "Find every contact tagged webinar with Head of Sales in their title." Search by name, company, title, tag, list, email or "hot right now".

Inbox

• "Summarize this week's replies in my Q4 campaign." Who is interested, who said not now, who said no.
• "Reply to Daniel: Thursday at 10 works, I'll send an invite." The assistant shows you the exact text and asks before sending. The reply goes out on the conversation's own channel (LinkedIn, email or WhatsApp), within that account's daily limit.

What it can't do, and what stays under your control

We built the connector so that the assistant can help a lot without being able to do damage on its own.

• Read-only unless you say otherwise. On the Kerux sign-in page only the "see" permissions are ticked. Adding contacts, editing campaigns or replying needs you to tick it.
• One workspace per connection. For another client's workspace, connect again and pick it.
• No new destinations for your data. It can't add webhooks, add a webhook or API step that sends to a new address, or launch a campaign whose steps send somewhere the live campaign doesn't. You add those in Kerux, where you see where the data goes.
• No purchases, no keys. It can't buy credits, change your Twilio keys or connect a Bluesky account, and it never touches billing, members or API keys. There is no "everything" permission.
• Starting campaigns needs its own permission. Launching a campaign, sending a broadcast or a trigger that starts a whole segment or list needs Start campaigns and broadcasts for your contacts, which stays off until you tick it.
• At most 100 deletes a day. Each delete is recorded with the app that made it. To delete more, use Contacts in Kerux.
• It asks before anything that reaches people. Launching, sending a reply, adding contacts to a running campaign and fixing a contact are marked as actions in Kerux's tool list, so Claude and ChatGPT ask you before running them. Campaigns are built as drafts.
• Unknown sends stay with you. If Kerux doesn't know whether a message went out, sending it again is a decision you make in Kerux (Home > Tasks), after checking LinkedIn.
• LinkedIn limits still apply. Everything goes out within each account's daily and weekly limits, and the assistant can't search LinkedIn.
• A retried request never acts twice. If the chat repeats a call, Kerux recognizes it.
• You can end it anytime. Integrations > Developers > Connected apps shows every assistant connected to the workspace, its permissions and when it was last used. Click Disconnect and it stops on its next request. A connection also ends after 90 days; the assistant then asks you to sign in again.

One more habit worth keeping: contact names and messages are written by other people. Treat them as information, and don't let a message in your inbox decide what the assistant sends.

Which plan includes it

The connector is part of Pro (from US$69 per LinkedIn account a month) and Agency, and of the 10-day free trial with no card. Building a campaign from a sentence uses Kerux AI credits, like Create with AI in the app. Compare the plans on the pricing page.

More detail: the step-by-step guide for Claude and ChatGPT, the developer guide with every tool listed and the Claude and ChatGPT integration page. Other tools Kerux works with are on Integrations.

Claude is a trademark of Anthropic; ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI. Kerux is not affiliated with either.